Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-10-23
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was disclosed. Inc place nanleu ~
sheltering the fugitive was the residence
of Mr. Lucius A. Benton, a jeweler
of Cleveland, and well-knOwn citizen.
Mr., GOshorn at once went before the United
States Commissioner for the Cleveland dis
trict, B. White, in company with Mr.John
Goshorn, his father, and there made an
affidavit upon which the Commissioner
ordered the arrest of the woman on the
charge of being fugitive slave. The OH
GERS, Assistant U. S. Marshalsi 5. A. Abbey,
I. II. Johnson and Lambert White, accom-
panied by the Messrs. Goshorn and u spe'
cisl policeman, whom Mr.. W. s. GOshorn
had hired to he near them while they
should remain in the city, then repaired to
the residence of Mr.. Benton, where the
girl was taken into custody aud committed
to the Cleveland Jail.
The fact of the arrest was soon nOlsed
abroad in Cleveland, and created the most
intense excitement Public meetings were
held, money subscribed, and the most EN-
inent attorney at the Cleveland bar, Judge
K. Z. Spalding, was engaged to appear on
behalf Of the girl before Judge ID. K. I'll
den, and secure q writ of hdJedS corpus
for her release.
4 On Saturday lmorning, January 10, it
became known that such application would
be made, and the excitement at once grew
until it stood close to the danger line. The
county Jail in which the woman was con-
fined was surrounded at an early hour IL
the morning by crowd Of people, labOring
under intense excitement, and the OutlooS
was not the most assuring. Numbers oI
the crowd made fOrcible demands for the
unconditional release Ofthe prisoner, and al
several periods during the day an attack
upon the building seemed imminent Many
white men and almost all the colored por'
ton of the population had arms OF some de
scriptiOn, and even the cOlOred women car
ried fat irons tied up in aprons and such
like weapons One colored woman, when ar
rested and searched, had no less than foul
| fat irons upon her person. SO thoroughly
alarmed was the Sheriff that he took pos
session OF the Jail yard with detachment
of police, but these were pOwerless, the
people swarming all over the premises. II
had been determined TO have the prisOnei
in court, in the usual way, but so goOc
were the chances Of rescue, that at The
last moment Judge Tilden determined u
allow her to remain in jail, and the oast
proceeded without her.
Judge Tilden, in calling the case, stated
that the matter in consideration was 9
habeas cOrpns, the proceeding being
against the Sheriff and Jailor OF Cuya
hOga County for holding o0lored woman
name unknown,
| WITHOUT LEGAL AUTHORITY.
Judge Spalding, representing the prisoner
said the complaint WAS unlawful deten
ton. He denied the right of the U. s
Commissioner to issue snch paper as he
had. or TO use the iails of Ohio for the de-
tention of fugitive. The prisoner was in
no sense guilty of the commission of 8
crime, even under the fugitive slave law
itself. Finally the presiding Judge took
the matter under adyisement until the
following Monday morning at 3 o'clock
at the same time eDjoining the excited
pOpulaee to abstain from any breach Of
the peace. The immense crowd about the
Court House soon dispersed, but not until
tbs police had disaTmed number, taking
clubs and knives from them.
During Sunday the matter vas the uni.
yersal topic Of conversation in Cleveland,
and the Messrs. GoshoFn were the subjects
of good many threats of personal VIC
lenee. Promptly on Monday morning the
streets in the vicinity of the Jail and court
house began to fill up with crowd even
more excited than that of Saturday, and
by the time the hOGT sat for the opening Of
COurt-nine O'clock-hai arrived, the
whole neighborhoOd was o solid mass Of
people. The authorities had taken elabo.
rate precautions to prevent an outbreak OF
an attempt at rescue of the woman. In
addition to the regular police force of the
city, large number of special officers had
been sworn in, while, at the request of the